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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1945
Page
8
Prt E Wognum writes from Jackson Mississippi asking for a June 5 reception day and a reception committee to honor returning servicemen and those who never return. He describes a convalescent hospital transfer and thanks for received packages.
Spar De Young shares a cheerful note about receiving a Chamber of Commerce package while stationed in Washington for temporary Coast Guard duty. She explains two weeks of key-punching training, two weeks work, and ongoing classes, plus missing home folks and keeping in touch via The Pointer.
Miss Wilma Schaap daughter of Mr and Mrs Gerrit Schaap married Pfe Seymour Van Drunen son of Mr and Mrs C B Van Drunen in a double ring ceremony in the McKinley school auditorium with Rev Herman Bel officiating. The couple left for Winter General hospital Topeka Kansas after their June 11 wedding. The groom has served in the 7th Army earning the Purple Heart for wounds in Germany.
Rev Nelson Veltman of Drenthe Michigan will address the Back to God Hour on June 17 at 9 pm. The Christian Reformed church sponsors the broadcast on WCFL Chicago 1000 kc.
A new call for induction goes out this week naming twenty seven men, with six from South Holland among those ordered to report. Among those to enlist are John Vogler, Robert Van Vuren, Eugene Kingman, Milan Baker, John Patz Jr., and James Bales, who will discard civilian clothes for Uncle Sam's uniform.
Residents of Dalton Riverdale Thornton Phoenix and South Holland urged to visit the June diagnostic chest clinic at South Holland Health Center 15804 South Park Ave South Holland Friday June 15 between 1 and 3 p.m. Dr Julius B Novak medical director of The Tuberculosis Institute of Chicago and Cook County will be in charge assisted by Mrs Florence Jorgenson RN in charge of the Health Center.
Village Hall auction plans for dresses and children's clothes plus baked goods by Ladies Aid First Reformed church. Munster Girl's choir to perform The Bright Penny at McKinley school auditorium. De Young Annual Picnic set at Glenwood Forest preserve. Local births engagements and church news, band rehearsal shifts, and service member reminiscences from World War II era. Also notices on alfalfa cutting, traffic safety, lodging wanted, and requests for old gasoline engines.
A Wednesday evening shower at the Hoosevelfs school honored Dorothy Kuiken ahead of her June Saturday wedding to Henry Kickert. Seventy friends and relatives attended to present gifts for the couple’s future home.
Farmers in the community adopt a mechanical onion picker operated by seven men, replacing 380 or more workers and enabling nine acres to be harvested daily. The device loosens, picks, gathers, and cleans onion sets and is manufactured by General Welding and Machine Shop run by Peter Lagestee. Also notes alfalfa crop injury from leafhoppers affecting second growth.
A Hebron Indiana ad notes a supply of gasoline engines suitable for onion screens and stationary units. Interested buyers are directed to call Hebron 39 or write Wagnum Implement Sales, Hebron, Ind. The snippet ends with a cautionary line about appearances.
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